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Filled With Fun!
It's always a treat when something you love, but is widely considered less than successful, gets another chance to make an impression. Anything from the Farscape mini-series to a canceled comic book getting a new collection. So imagine my surprise when I learned that Viva Pinata, one of my favorite games from the last few years and the only game in which I've gotten all the Achievement points, is getting a sequel. Details are dripping out slowly, but careful viewers can find out a lot by watching this quick in-game montage. Color me overjoyed.
It's always a treat when something you love, but is widely considered less than successful, gets another chance to make an impression. Anything from the Farscape mini-series to a canceled comic book getting a new collection. So imagine my surprise when I learned that Viva Pinata, one of my favorite games from the last few years and the only game in which I've gotten all the Achievement points, is getting a sequel. Details are dripping out slowly, but careful viewers can find out a lot by watching this quick in-game montage. Color me overjoyed.
Indiana Jones and the really long title that's still a better title than The Phantom Menace ever was
First off, it's good. Don't let any bellyaching you'll hear from me or others stop you from going. You want good whip-cracking, fist punching action, this is your movie. Never let it be said that The Spielberg has forgotten how to direct an action sequence. This movie made me remember why Harrison Ford is a movie star. An article I read talked about him sleepwalking through his movies for the last ten years, and I'd have to agree. But he's awake and aware here, and damn it, he's Indy in the way that Mel wasn't Riggs in the last Lethal Weapon and Bruce wasn't John in the last Die Hard. He walks right back into the hat and the whip and plays him at the age he is. What I loved about the performance, and the movie, is that this is a different Indy. While the filmmakers have been twiddling their thumbs, Indy's life has been progressing. We get glimpses of other adventures he has been on in the meantime that we didn't get to see movies about. While that can be frustrating, the idea of the character living while he was missing from the silver screen is a bold one and makes him more of a living person than a character who's been on ice for twenty years.
But all is not sweet in this garden. While the gang of three did manage to pull it off and make a compelling and exciting movie, the filmmakers themselves could not get over the fact that they are Crazy George Up On The Hill and The Spielberg. All their individual quirks and crutches are all here, writ large. There's style and there's compulsion and habit. Knowing the movies and the men, it's hard not to roll your eyes when one of their individual cliches goes rolling by. From Lucas' overarching We'll fix it with CGI! to The Spielberg's capping of an amazing action sequence with a terrible coda (hint: watch out for that tree!), they are too big for anyone to say, maybe that's not such a great idea. From what I've read, there were two scripts on the table, one that each filmmaker liked, so they got The Spielberg's writing monkey David Koepp to stitch the two together so they each got their favorite scenes. But the seams do tend to show, mostly in the amount of time characters all have to sit down and discuss the plot with each other. It stops the movie dead in an "It's exposition dear, it has to go somewhere!" fashion.
I'm brushing up against spoilers here, so I'll have to wrap up. Did I like it? Hell yes. When I was in the movie theater, I was totally caught up. The opening hour or so hums along like the days of old. There's a big clunky, chatty transition when we move into script 2, but then it picks up speed again. The ending sort of sputters out, but that's a topic for another time. All the actors make the best with what they are given and Harrison especially outdoes himself. It's not the second coming, but it's a lot better movie than any of the Star Wars prequels or any of the Young Indy Chronicles. We waited a long time for this one and I'm just glad they didn't fall on their faces.
First off, it's good. Don't let any bellyaching you'll hear from me or others stop you from going. You want good whip-cracking, fist punching action, this is your movie. Never let it be said that The Spielberg has forgotten how to direct an action sequence. This movie made me remember why Harrison Ford is a movie star. An article I read talked about him sleepwalking through his movies for the last ten years, and I'd have to agree. But he's awake and aware here, and damn it, he's Indy in the way that Mel wasn't Riggs in the last Lethal Weapon and Bruce wasn't John in the last Die Hard. He walks right back into the hat and the whip and plays him at the age he is. What I loved about the performance, and the movie, is that this is a different Indy. While the filmmakers have been twiddling their thumbs, Indy's life has been progressing. We get glimpses of other adventures he has been on in the meantime that we didn't get to see movies about. While that can be frustrating, the idea of the character living while he was missing from the silver screen is a bold one and makes him more of a living person than a character who's been on ice for twenty years.
But all is not sweet in this garden. While the gang of three did manage to pull it off and make a compelling and exciting movie, the filmmakers themselves could not get over the fact that they are Crazy George Up On The Hill and The Spielberg. All their individual quirks and crutches are all here, writ large. There's style and there's compulsion and habit. Knowing the movies and the men, it's hard not to roll your eyes when one of their individual cliches goes rolling by. From Lucas' overarching We'll fix it with CGI! to The Spielberg's capping of an amazing action sequence with a terrible coda (hint: watch out for that tree!), they are too big for anyone to say, maybe that's not such a great idea. From what I've read, there were two scripts on the table, one that each filmmaker liked, so they got The Spielberg's writing monkey David Koepp to stitch the two together so they each got their favorite scenes. But the seams do tend to show, mostly in the amount of time characters all have to sit down and discuss the plot with each other. It stops the movie dead in an "It's exposition dear, it has to go somewhere!" fashion.
I'm brushing up against spoilers here, so I'll have to wrap up. Did I like it? Hell yes. When I was in the movie theater, I was totally caught up. The opening hour or so hums along like the days of old. There's a big clunky, chatty transition when we move into script 2, but then it picks up speed again. The ending sort of sputters out, but that's a topic for another time. All the actors make the best with what they are given and Harrison especially outdoes himself. It's not the second coming, but it's a lot better movie than any of the Star Wars prequels or any of the Young Indy Chronicles. We waited a long time for this one and I'm just glad they didn't fall on their faces.
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